This year's dolphin-hunting season began Monday in the western Japan whaling town of Taiji, using the traditional ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese government spokesman defended an annual dolphin hunt Monday, after U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy tweeted that she was deeply concerned by the inhumanity of the practice.

Japan's aquariums promised Wednesday to stop acquiring dolphins captured in a bloody hunt that was depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" and has caused global outrage.

Japan's enthusiasm for whale hunting is even harder to understand from a dollars-and-cents perspective: The business supports a few thousand jobs and generates annual revenue of around $90 million.

TOKYO -- The fishing town of Taiji will not stop its dolphin hunts, the mayor said Thursday, after Japan's aquariums decided to stop buying captured dolphins under international pressure sparked ...

The annual dolphin hunt currently underway in Taiji in western Japan has long been a source of controversy and was the topic of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary. " (I am) deeply concerned ...

Japan at center of controversy A 2009 Oscar-nominated documentary film, “The Cove,” brought the issue of dolphin hunting in Taiji to the fore with bloody scenes of dolphin slaughter.

Japan is one of three countries – along with Norway and Iceland – that continues to hunt whales, and officials argue that the industry is an important part of its culture and history – and ...

For years, Japan exploited a loophole in international rules to continue hunting whales despite being a member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) bound by the commercial whaling ...

Japan is determined to keep hunting whales. And now it has a brand new ‘mothership’ Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images via CNN Newsource ...